interview
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Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller: «Hope? I call it resistance»
INTERVIEW: Short in runtime, yet sprawling in its political scope. With They’re Here, Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller assembled an uncanny hybrid of horror film and documentary from crowdsourced footage, OSINT data and material shot on the ground in and around Minneapolis during the ultra-violent ICE occupation.
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KineDok: «Decentralisation is absolutely crucial»
INTERVIEW: KineDok's Juliana Moska talks through a season built on decentralisation, and what changed since she and Walter Nagy took over the Czech programme this March.
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Mark Cousins: «AI would never do that»
INTERVIEW: Mark Cousins built a sixteen-hour documentary, refusing to separate images from the world that makes them. In conversation, he keeps reaching for objects scattered around him, as if the room itself were mapping cinema's connection to everything else.
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«Imagine you are a child of an executioner and a victim at the same time»
INTERVIEW: In Last Letters From My Grandma, Olga Lucovnicova turns a box of family letters into a reckoning with Soviet memory, migration, silence and the war in Ukraine. Speaking with Modern Times Review, she reflects on language, trauma and the family as a contested historical archive.
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«The house could still hold pain, but it could also hold another future»
INTERVIEW: A return to a house left behind in exile becomes an excavation of what cannot be easily restored. In Where the Silence Is Heard, Gabriela Pena and Picho García trace how memory, fear, and absence continue to structure intimacy across generations.
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«It was the people and not the authorities»
INTERVIEW: Ada Solomon on Romanian cinema, documentary, and institutional failure.
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«We need a different appreciation of culture in society»
INTERVIEW: Laurens Korteweg discusses Movies That Matter 2026, financial pressure, Dutch cultural cuts, and the challenge of sustaining a human rights festival.
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«No audience is braver than people who come to documentaries»
INTERVIEW: CPH:DOX Head of Programme Niklas Engstrøm speaks to Modern Times Review about the 2026 festival, democratic dialogue, film curation, and documentary form.